How Mastercard’s Chief Learning Officer Is Scaling Leadership Development - 2026 Next Practices Weekly
As organizations navigate rising expectations for growth, agility, and enterprise-wide transformation, leadership development can no longer operate as a collection of standalone programs. For Chief Learning Officers, the mandate is clear: build leadership capability as a scalable, enterprise-wide business capability that accelerates strategy execution, strengthens succession readiness, and prepares leaders to guide the organization through sustained change.
On June 25, 2026, i4cp’s Next Practices Weekly will feature Emily Lin, Chief Learning Officer at Mastercard, for a conversation on how learning leaders can design leadership development strategies that scale across a complex global enterprise. Hosted by i4cp, this session will explore how CLOs and senior learning leaders can align leadership development with business priorities, embed learning into the flow of work, and create measurable impact across leader populations.
Lin, recently named one of the “Top 25 Women Chief Learning Officers of 2025” by We Admire, brings a timely perspective on what it takes to build learning strategies that are both enterprise-aligned and people-centered. The conversation will examine how leadership development can support business performance, strengthen leadership pipelines, and equip leaders at every level to navigate complexity, transformation, and innovation with confidence.
Why You Should Attend
- Gain perspective on how CLOs can scale leadership capability across a complex global enterprise.
- Explore how leadership development can shift from a portfolio of programs to an integrated business capability that enables strategy execution.
- Learn how to align leadership learning with business priorities, workforce transformation, succession readiness, and long-term growth.
- Understand how to build stronger leadership pipelines that prepare leaders at every level to lead through complexity, change, and innovation.
- Discover practical ways to make leadership development more scalable, measurable, inclusive, and embedded in the flow of work.
Chief Learning Officers and senior learning leaders will leave with practical insight into how to elevate leadership development as a strategic lever for enterprise performance. The session will offer ideas for scaling high-impact leadership experiences, strengthening leadership pipelines, and connecting learning investments to measurable business outcomes, while ensuring leadership development remains inclusive, people-centered, and aligned to the future needs of the organization.
To ensure open discussion, this event is exclusively for HR practitioners. Vendors and consultants are not permitted to attend.
